Conclusion about the geographical background of India culture
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Indian subcontinent includes six countries – Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh. The whole subcontinent was known as Bharatavarsha or Hindustan in ancient time.
The word Hindustan is derived from the name of the river Sindhu. Westerners pronounced Sindhu as ‘Hindu’ or ‘Indu.’ Hence the name ‘India’.
From the archaeological evidence, the Indus civilization has known to dominate the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 b.c.
From that period on, India operated as a virtually self-contained political and cultural arena; this in turn became the basis for India’s distinctive tradition that was associated primarily with Hinduism. The root of Hinduism came from the Indus civilization.
Other religions, like Buddhism and Jainism also originated in India. Islam was brought from the northwest by Arab, Turkish, Persian.